Case Study: How Can a Service Area Business Hide Their Address Without Losing Their Rankings?

Google has a bug.

When a service area business (SAB) — with a hidden address on their Google Business Profile — moves to a new location, their rankings stay at the old location.

But is there a way to avoid this problem?

I just tested this in a new case study, and the results are illuminating.

Here’s one of the charts we looked at:

Watch the full video to learn what we found 👇️

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